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16 Piece Rabitos Royale Dark Chocolate Fig Bonbons by La Tienda |  | Brand: Royale
Category: Grocery
Buy New: $19.50
as of 9/9/2010 09:19 CDT details
Seller: La Tienda
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 17274
Country: Spain
Ingredients: Dried fig, liquid cream, glucose syrup, brandy liquor, chocolate.
Media: Misc.
Size: 16 pieces
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Model: CT-02
ASIN: B000P5XNHW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Requires expedited shipping during warm weather | | • | NASFT Best Confection 2006 | | • | Individually wrapped |
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Product Description
Rabitos Royale Dark Chocolate Fig Bonbons are an amazing product - perhaps our favorite chocolate creation from Spain. They have won the immediate acclaim from our La Tienda community. But don't take their word for it; when you try one we are confident that they will become a favorite of yours. Raquel and Señador Valero conceived of this extraordinary treat, while living among the fig trees of a small village in southwestern Spain. They select tender young figs from the neighboring groves and fill them with a mousse made of dark chocolate and a hint of brandy. Each one is then hand dipped in even more rich dark chocolate! Finally each individual Rabito Bonbon is sealed in a foil envelope so that it will always taste as fresh as the day they were made. The rich dark chocolate / brandy mousse nicely accents the delicate sweetness of the baby fig. It is an inspired juxtaposition of flavors. It is a culinary masterpiece that earned the Best Confection in Show honor at the Fancy Food Show in New York - no mean accomplishment for the folks of a remote town in Extremadura! The Valero family knocked the socks off all the sophisticated big city confectioners! A box of Rabitos makes an inspired alternative to the usual box of chocolates. What a wonderful way to eat a healthy fig! (A great rationalization when you reach for your third one!) Rabitos are an unusually tasty gift for friends and family and nice to have around for yourself.
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| Customer Reviews:
best figs ever July 10, 2010
Smitch
Boughtthese as a gift for someone who's a real fig fan -- who said they were 'the best figs ever' and that the chocolate is divine. Can't say fairer than that.
An occasional, necessary luxury March 17, 2009
Joanne (Long Island, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very grown up taste and satisfying darker chocolate so that I'm able to eat one, sometimes 2, and not feel I need to eat the whole box at one sitting. These chocolates are pricey yes, not the kind you share with the neighbors. These you keep for yourself in a totally selfish, but at times, necessary way. The brandy kick is subtle, does not in my opinion hurt but enhance the taste experience against the fig and chocolate. I see it this way--in this downer of an economy, buying a box of these is a lot cheaper than that trip to Italy you thought you'd be planning right now. We may have no choice but to tighten our financial belts in a serious way; but in small ways, we all still need to have a simple luxury now and then that puts a smile on our face.
 Delicious but watch out for the brandy! April 4, 2008
Book Girl
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a delicious, decadent, moist whole fig, complete with stem, delicately filled with a soft chocolate truffle type center then enrobed in chocolate with brandy. They are not wrapped as shown, yet foil-sealed on both ends like a miniature candy bar which was not as elegant in presentation, but did not detract from the item.
Although decadent and clearly hand-made, I believe the use of brandy overpowered this otherwise luscious sweet. The brandy flavor is overwhelming and drowned the superior chocolate, rich center, and delicate fig. The taste reeked far too much of alcohol. If you are a brandy lover, then you will love this. If you do not savor spirits mixed with your chocolate treats, beware.
If they ever decide to make a non-brandy version of this, I must say it would easily be amongst the elite of gourmet bonbons.
Regardless of my personal taste against spirit imbued desserts, this product is well accomplished, truly unique, artisinal and abosolutely worth trying.
Note that La Tienda is an excellent company as I have bought from them before, never with a problem and always with a superior product.
these are yummy! September 8, 2007
K. Steward (New Hampshire United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know if they are totally worth the high price but I will say they are very yummy. They are smaller than I expected but that turned out to be a good thing as you can fit a whole one in your mouth and then let the enjoyable chocolate filling ooze out.
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